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US sex trafficking on the rise
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Jan 26, 2015
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US sex trafficking on the rise
It takes just 48 hours for a runaway child to be approached by a sex trafficker. This isn't in a far-flung nation. This is in the United States
Savannah, with her mother, Sara, at their home outside of Boston, MA, just two of the subjects in the documentary "A Path Appears"
Savannah, with her mother, Sara, at their home outside of Boston, MA, just two of the subjects in the documentary "A Path Appears"
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Audrey Hall
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It takes just 48 hours for a runaway child to be approached by a sex trafficker. This isn't in a far-flung nation. This is in the United States

Sex trafficking is often seen as an overseas issue, but a new PBS documentary highlights the thousands of young children falling prey to this modern day form of slavery in the United States. 

"A Path Appears" is based on a book of the same name by New York Times Columnist Nick Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn. The first of the three part series airs on Monday night. 

For a look at how the issue is being dealt with in Southern California,  Take Two's Alex Cohen sat down with Michelle Guymon, director of the L.A. County Probation Department's Child Trafficking Unit